Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
Do nothing twice over.
events certain forerunners
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
queens mistress ratios
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
numbers judging quality
Judge not by the number, but by the weight.
adversity demand prosperity
Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.
father men praise
I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
night men names
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
envy judgment malevolence
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
theft possession
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
philosophy men cities
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
pain disease mortals
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
mind age together
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
men profession practise
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
mind tongue
I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]